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Remodel kitchen, Livingroom
I'm in the process of remodeling our house in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. I am a self taught carpenter and woodworker. I've competed the kitchen, dining room and livingroom to date.
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Kitchen ceiling and stove hood
This kitchen was part of a new home I was building. We wanted windows above the cabinets, so I designed the house as a saltbox, with 12' walls along the back. The false hammer trusses started with...
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Ceiling Restoration Under Handmade Barrel Tile
JW Roofing was contracted to help with the restoration of a beautiful sixty-year-old home. The new owners wanted to do everything right and keep the historic look. We were asked to install mortar set...
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Historic Renovation Trim Details
This was an 18-month renovation of a historic home in West Chester, PA. Built in 1845 and in serious disrepair, the entire home was gutted for new electric, mechanicals, plumbing, etc. Not a single...
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Supporting Post Design Solution
This single post support (left) becomes a center hall entry/partition detail, matching the front entry transom.
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Coffered ceiling
Fine Homebuilding Magazine Re: Interior Trim Contest I designed and built our house in Halfmoon Bay on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast beginning in 2008. We moved in in the Spring of...
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Townhome Fireplace, Built-ins, Wainscoting, and Molding - Before and After from an amature
1 commentMy own home by an amature wood worker. After looking at sky-rocketing cost estimates and generic options offered, I decided to take on the task of creating a quality classical Living, Dining Room...
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A few of the rooms I remodeled in my house
3 commentsI bought a large house about six years ago because it had great potential. For me that equaled quality construction and tons of plain, white rooms. I have spent almost every...
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Custom Townhouse Trim
The design was developed with the idea of an arts and craft or Frank Lloyd Wright them. Baseboards, window and door trim plus corner guards were installed. The material was white ash to match the...
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5 by 7 Bathroom
1 commentThe idea with my client was to create within their historic home a replacement for the 60s style (public) first floor bathroom in their home, with one that reflected the ship building here in...
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Fire Place Surround
I designed and built this on a job site a few years back. Everything painted was completely custom and the Stain grade pieces were job site customised stock kitchen cabinet parts. The center unit...
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Interior Front Door Trim - Historical Replica
1 commentThis project involved enhancing the interior front door trim in the two-story foyer of my colonial style home. I researched various details with some historical basis for this type of home, both...
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China cabinet/bump out
China Cabinet that we removed two windows and bumped out into a bay to allow more room in dining room.
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Oval Knotty Pine Study
The house consisted of a 2 story rectangle with quarter arc wings that connected the master suite on the left and the garage /guest room on the right. The study was in the left arched wing You can...
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Simple Recessed Panels in our Dining Room
1 commentThis simple recessed paneling is constructed using 1x4 poplar wood boards attached directly to the existing drywall, which remains as the center panel. Each panel is trimed with applied panel...
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Mahogany Living Room
This is a Khaya Mahogany Panel with applied moulding. The room has a bar area with small sink, fridge, and ice maker. There is also an entertainment center with break front. A wine cellar with wine...
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Cherry trim & panels
Cherry door & window trim, posts, panels & island back panel with corbels in a Craftsman style home.
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Custom home
Custom home in NJ. Painted poplar moldings except Study is Cherry. Office is Knotty Pine ceilings / walls with Hickory flooring.
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Crown and Picture Rail with Plinths
Interior finish with Black Walnut. Three piece crown with plinths. Picture rail. Crowned door trim. Grain matched.
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Office Ceiling
My brother and I designed and built this ceiling for my basement office. Solid cherry and cherry veneers with ebony plugs. The panels lift out for access to the ceiling.
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Mahogany Trim
3 commentsI worked on this house with the Builder from start to finish. It took us about 3 months to do the finish work. Mostly mahogany a couple rooms were american cherry. All of the copes were done by hand...
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Trim Details in the Dining Room of a Storybook Home
This formal dining room is one part of a whole house construction, built to complement antique oak furniture. The wood-filled interior is based on Scandinavian design. I can thank my Norwegian...
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Coffered Ceiling
This was a project that would have been more difficult if it were not for the article in Fine Homebuilding on "Coffered Ceilings". Made of poplar crown, baseboard, finger jointed trim boards...
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Home Office
3 commentsThis was a home office project using solid cherry baseboards, chair rails, crown moulding and custom made cabinets. Owner supplied 'Plantation Shutters' (white aspen) were stained and finished to...
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window seat with wall units
I built this for a friend's teenage daughter, who had been waiting for 9 years to have it built! After reviewing numerous magazine photos we came up with the design. There is a full size drawer in...
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Official Rules: Interior Trim Details Contest
Fine Homebuilding's "Design Contest: Interior Trim Detail" Contest Official Rules NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER. Entries for "Design Contest: Interior Trim Detail" Contest (Photo Contest) will...
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How to Paint Fiber-Cement Siding
Painter Jim Lacey shares some tips for caulking and painting fiber-cement siding. read more
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